Friday, October 27, 2006

Man & Boy





















"Moving through my changes as fast as I can,
trying to bring the balance between me and the man"
("See The Changes" - Graham Nash)

Quotes .....

- "... And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.." ("The End" - The Beatles/Paul McCartney)

- "A fantabulous night to make romance" ("Moondance" - Van Morrison)

- "There never be a better moment than this one" ("This one" - Paul McCartney)

- "They say that these are not the best of times but they're the only ones I have ever known" ("Summer, Highland Falls" - Billy Joel)

- "Nobody wins unless everybody wins" (Bruce Spingsteen introducing 'Born to run')

- "Somewhere a queen is weeping, somewhere a king has no wife" ("The wind cries Mary"- Jimi Hendrix)

- "Einstein said he could never understand it all. Planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face ..." ("Secret of life" - James Taylor)

- "Cause we all have wings...but some of us don't know why" ("Never tear us apart" - INXS)

- "What I have got, I have earned. What I am not, I have learned" ("Because the night " - Bruce Springsteen)

- "I know that time spent well is so rare" - ("Chance meeting" - Roxy Music)

- "We get so high and get nowhere" ("I've loved these days" - Billy Joel)

- "I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley or Keats 'cause it's all been said before" ("Every picture tells a story" - Rod Stewart)

- "And the pleasure I get from (....) winning a bet is to lose" ("Nothing Rhymed"- Gilbert O'Sullivan)

- "After changes upon changes we are more or less the same" ("The boxer" - Paul Simon & Garfunkel)

- "If loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right" (Rod Stewart)

- "Are you talking to me?" (Robert de Niro in "Taxi Driver")

- "You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come" ("Badlands" - Bruce Springsteen)

- "Do what's good for you or you're not good for anybody" ("James" - Billy Joel)

- "How many roads do we gotta travel on till we find out we're already home? Already home!" ("One word" - Heart)

- "When you point your finger cause your plan fell through, you've got three more fingers, pointing back at you - '("Solid Rock" - Dire Straits)

- "Don't take any shit from anybody" (Billy Joel at the end of his concerts)

- "You always have my unspoken passion although I might not seem to care" ("Just the way you are" - Billy Joel)

- "I guess if a man lives long enough he gets to see everything" (Martin Sheen in 'Wallstreet')

- "It is all about bucks; the rest is conversation"(Michael Douglas in 'Wallstreet')

- "But to look for heaven, is to live here in hell" ("Consider me gone" - Sting)

- "Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you can't see' ('Save the Best for Last' - Vanessa Williams)

- “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, It’s a wonder I can think at all” (“Kodachrome” – Paul Simon)

- "Just because you can't see me, doesn't mean I am not there' ( 'Phil' - Lori Spee)

- "The ones you never notice are the ones you have to watch" ('Fair game' - Crosby, Stills & Nash)

- "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse ..." ('The river' - Bruce Springsteen)

- 'I will turn your face to alabaster, when you find your servant is your master' ('Wrapped around your finger' - The Police/Sting)

- "When I'm sad she comes to me. With a thousand smiles she gives to me free. It's all right she said, it's all right. Take anything you want from me. Anything ("Little Wing" - Jimi Hendrix)

- "Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all the time" ("Coney Island" - Van Morrison)

- "My love is wider than Victoria Lake. My love is taller than the Empire state ...." ("Is it a crime" - Sade)

- “Man, the dope’s that there’s still hope” (“Does this bus stop at 82nd street?” – Bruce Springsteen)

- “If I were you, I would stay for a little while. If you were me, would you walk out in style?” (“Out of the blue” – Roxy Music)

- “Zij verstaat de kunst van bij me horen (....) Zij is meer dan deze woorden zeggen. In mijn lichaam heeft ze plaats gemaakt voor twee. Maar wie weet een wonder uit te leggen. En een wonder draag ik met me mee” (“Voor haar” – Frans Halsema/Michel van de Plas)

- “It’s all so clear I could never forget. Loving you is the one thing I’ll never regret” (“Sara” – Bob Dylan)

- “I’ve been trying to think that love’s not around. Still it‘s uncomfortably near” (“Angel Eyes” – Frank Sinatra)

- “If you've got something to say, why don't you say it? If you've got something to give, why don't you give it to me? Day after day I have to say it: if we've got something to save, why don't we save it?” - (“Something to save” - George Michael)

- "The secret marriage vow is never spoken; The secret marriage vow never can be broken" ("The secret marriage' - Sting)

- "Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you. Maybe I'm a man maybe I'm a lonely man who's in the middle of something that he doesn't really understand" ("Maybe I'm amazed"- Paul McCartney)

- "And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong, I'm right. Where I belong I'm right, where I belong" ('Fixing a Hole' - The Beatles/Paul McCartney)

- "If there are many meaning the same, being specific is just a game " ("If there is something" - Roxy Music)

- "Everybody's talking about the new sound. Funny ....but it's still Rock & Roll to me" ("It's still Rock & Roll to me"- Billy Joel)

- "You have done what no one thought could be, you brought some joy inside my tears" ("Joy inside my tears" - Stevie Wonder)

- "It's either sadness or euphoria" ("Summer, Highland Falls" - Billy Joel)

- "I would do anything for you, I would climb mountains, I would swim all the oceans blue. I would walk a thousand miles, reveal my secrets. More than enough for me to share" - ("If there is something" - Roxy Music)

- “Everything put together sooner or later falls apart” (Paul Simon)

- "Better to be a King for a night than a schmuck for lifetime" (Robert de Niro in 'The King of Comedy")

- "My hunger for her, explains everything I have done" ("Sister Moon" - Sting)

- "We are only what we feel" ( "On the way home" - Niel Young)

- "One man's ceiling is another man's floor" (Paul Simon)

- "And will the wind ever remember, the names it has blown in the past" ("The Wind Cries Mary" - Jimi Hendrix)

- "Last night's blind date hit me like a hand granate" ("Sleepwalkin'" - Golden Earring)

- "My eyes were full of morning and my mouth was full of night" ("Strangers room" - Graham Nash)

- "Ever since you left I have been trying to compose a "Baby, would you please come home" note meant for you" ("My Brave Face" - Paul McCartney/Elvis Costello)

- "This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime" (Clint Eastwood in 'The Bridges of Madison County)

- "For a forest to be green, each tree must be green"

- "I am only sad in a natural way. And I enjoy sometimes feeling this way" ("Paris Match" - Style Council)

- "Half of time we're gone but we don't know where, we don't know where" ("The only living boy in New York" - Simon & Garfunkel)

- "And some day if your dreams are leaving you, I’ll still believe in you" ("Tomorrow is today" - Billy Joel)

- “My life’s so common it disappears. And sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears” (“Cool, cool river” – Paul Simon)

- "Don't panic, we're on the Titanic" ("Sleepwalkin'" - Golden Earring)

- "Ik houd niet van mensen die bewegen maar niet weten waar naar toe' (Johan Cruijf - 1982)

- "Can you (Mr. Pinochet) think of your own mother dancing with her invisible son?" ("They dance alone" - Sting)

- "When it come to being lucky she's cursed. When it come to loving me she's the worst" ("The first cut is the deepest"- Cat Stevens)

- "I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more a fool who is not afraid of rejection" ("Sleeping with the television on" - Billy Joel)

- And when I don't meet you no more in this world, I meet you in the next one and don't be late, don't be late ...." ("Voodoo Child" - Jimi Hendrix)

- "Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" ("Jack & Diane" - John Cougar Mellenkamp)

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Top 25 Favourite Songs (written by) Paul McCartney


Arrow Through Me (Back to the Egg with Wings - 1979)
Calico Skies (Flaming Pie - 1997)
Come And Get It (Recorded by Badfinger - 1969)
For No One (Revolver with The Beatles - 1966)
Fixing a Hole (Sgt. Pepper with The Beatles - 1967)
Get On The Right Thing (Red Rose Speedway with Wings - 1973)
Got To Get You Into My Life (Revolver with The Beatles - 1965)
Hey Jude (with The Beatles - 1968)
I will (The White Album with The Beatles)
Let it Be (Let it Be with The Beatles - 1970)
Love in Song (Venus & Mars with Wings - 1975)
Maybe I'm Amazed (McCartney - 1970)
My Love (Red Rose Speedway with Wings - 1973)
No More Lonely Nights (Give My Regards to Broadstreet - 1984)
Once Upon a Long Ago (All The Best - 1987)
Penny Lane ( with The Beatles - 1967)
Rough Ride (Flowers in the Dirt - 1989)
Someday (Flaming Pie - 1997)
That Day Is Done (Flowers in the Dirt - 1989)
The Back Seat Of My Car (Ram - 1971)
The Long & Winding Road (Let it Be with The Beatles - 1970)
The Lovers That Never Were (Off The Ground - 1993)
Through Our Love (Pipes of Peace - 1983)
With a Little Luck (London Town with Wings - 1978)
Yesterday (Help with The Beatles - 1965)

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Favourite Songs - One Song per Artist/Band


A Salty Dog - Procol Harum
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison
Angel Eyes - Frank Sinatra
Baby Come Back - Player
Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
But For Now - Jamie Cullum
Cygnet Committee - David Bowie
Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond
Crossroads - Don McLean
Dark Eyed Cajun Woman - The Doobie Brothers
Different For Girls - Joe Jackson
Eloise - Barry Ryan
Empty Faces - Solution
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Every Time I Think of You - The Babys
Flame, The - Cheap Trick
Get Of Off My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Heaven - Bryan Adams
I Call Your Name - A-HA
I Had a King - Joni Mitchell
If It's Magic - Stevie Wonder
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Is It A Crime - Sade
It's Too Late - Carole King
Lady of The Island - Graham Nash
Love Me Like Music - Heart
Love Over Gold - Dire Straits
Mad About You - Sting
Marie - Randy Newman
My Ever Changing Moods - Style Council
Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Nothing Lasts - Steve Miller Band
Oh Yes I Can - David Crosby
Old Love - Eric Clapton
Orchard Road - Leo Sayer
Out Of Love - Toto
Sara - Bob Dylan
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton
Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
- U2
- The Beatles
You Bring Me Joy - Anita Baker
You Do Something To Me - Paul Weller
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
You're So Vain - Carly Simon
Wasted Time - The Eagles
Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Vienna - Billy Joel

Favourite Albums


Studio
Abbey Road - The Beatles
American Pie - Don Mclean
Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood
Back to The Egg - Paul McCartney & Wings
Billion Dollars Babies - Alice Cooper
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard - Paul McCartney
Cold Spring Harbor - Billy Joel
Communique - Dire Straits
CSN ('69) - Crosby, Stills & Nash
CSN ('77) - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Dreamboat Annie -Heart
Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting
Flaming Pie - Paul McCartney
Flowers in the Dirt - Paul McCartney
Fly like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Footloose & Fance Free - Rod Stewart
Greetings from Ashbury Park - Bruce Springsteen
Harvest - Neil Young
Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon
Let it Be - The Beatles
Listen without Prejudice - George Micheal
Little Queen - Heart
Nylon Curtain, The - Billy Joel
One Trick Pony - Paul Simon
Outlandos d'Amour - The Police
Ram - Paul McCartney
Recall the Beginning ... a Journey from Eden - Steve Miller Band
Revolver - The Beatles
Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears
Sergeant Pepper - The Beatles
So - Peter Gabriel
Songs in the key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
Stranger, The - Billy Joel
Sweet Love - Anita Baker
Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
White Album, The - The Beatles

Live
Absolutely Live - Rod Stewart
Bring on the Night - Sting
Dear John, - Ilse DeLange
Four Way Street - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Gratitude - Earth, Wind & Fire
Hendrix in The West - Jimi Hendrix
Hot August Night - Neil Diamond
Live - James Taylor
Live - Randy Newman
Live 1975 - 1985 (The Box) - Bruce Springsteen
Live 1980/86 - Joe Jackson
Live at The Sands - Frank Sinatra
Live in Australia - Elton John
Live in Central Park '81 - Simon & Garfunkel
One Night Only - The Bee Gees
One Voice - Barbra Streisand
Mad Dog & an Englishman - Joe Cocker
Paris - Supertramp
Songs in the Attic - Billy Joel
Still Life - The Rolling Stones
The Concert - Barbra Streisand
The Main Event - Frank Sinatra
Unplugged's - Niel Young, Rod Stewart, Allanis Morrisette, Bryan Adams, Tony Bennet, Mariah Carey
Viva - Roxy Music
Wings over America - Paul McCartney & Wings